Top 40 Chris O'Dowd Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Beyonce is the most amazing woman in the world.”

— Chris O'Dowd

2. “I’m more like a spoon symbol. I think women just want to spoon me.”

— Chris O'Dowd

3. “I would be nothing if it wasn’t for the town where I grew up and the people who gave me my inspiration.”

— Chris O'Dowd

4. “Comedy writing is taking the brief thought and going with it.”

— Chris O'Dowd

5. “I don’t mind being slightly fat-ish, I just don’t want to be fat.”

— Chris O'Dowd

6. “I’m a Hawaiian shirt guy. I’ve made that life decision.”

— Chris O'Dowd

7. “I’d like my super power to be puns; I’d like to be great at puns: pun power. Then I could go on loads of panel shows and live off that forever.”

— Chris O'Dowd

8. “A guy who’s actually self destructive is quite fun to play.”

— Chris O'Dowd

9. “The cauliflower soup sounds so good. And the broccoli-melt sandwich. I’ve never heard of such a thing.”

— Chris O'Dowd

10. “What I think improv is great for is making dialogue more natural.”

— Chris O'Dowd

11. “Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.”

— Chris O'Dowd

12. “I’ve gone up for loads of jobs in the past that I knew were going to be terrible, and I’ve done my best, and I still haven’t got them. So I think I’ve been lucky in who’s decided I’d be worthy of their time.”

— Chris O'Dowd

13. “I just am so tired of really badly written women. It’s so boring.”

— Chris O'Dowd

14. “After ‘Bridesmaids,’ women know who I am.”

— Chris O'Dowd

15. “I mean, I’m an uncle of seven or eight, and I don’t mind it at all! Kids are great. Kids are the best six-hour experience you can have!”

— Chris O'Dowd

16. “I’m probably working on three different scripts at any time, so there’s never a time where I’ve got nothing to do.”

— Chris O'Dowd

17. “When I say I hate nostalgia, I hate things set in the recent past where everything is shiny and new.”

— Chris O'Dowd

18. “All of this talk of recession offends me. I am delighted that bankers have less money.”

— Chris O'Dowd

19. “I grew up among strong women so I know what it’s like to be loved and humiliated in a heartbeat.”

— Chris O'Dowd

20. “In comedy it helps if there’s a friendly atmosphere on the set.”

— Chris O'Dowd

21. “Put it this way: singing is not my day job.”

— Chris O'Dowd

22. “I think there’s something in the fact that it’s hard to be good looking and funny. You have to have an oddball quality; people have to sympathise with you to find you funny.”

— Chris O'Dowd

23. “I cook rarely, but I’ve kind of got two or three dishes that I stick to. I do a great sweet potato and lentil curry.”

— Chris O'Dowd

24. “Sometimes films about oppression or suppression can be quite maudlin and quite dour. Sometimes you need a little sugar with the medicine and I think of myself as the little sugar.”

— Chris O'Dowd

25. “For some reason, I find that in the course of my career I’ve worked with more women than most men have.”

— Chris O'Dowd

26. “I never go to these showbiz parties. I avoid them with a 10-inch pole.”

— Chris O'Dowd

27. “I’m a huge, huge believer in love. Huge!”

— Chris O'Dowd

28. “I come from a musical kind of family.”

— Chris O'Dowd

29. “I grew up in a house of forthright women.”

— Chris O'Dowd

30. “I definitely want to keep working in Ireland, and without being too worthy about it, if it’s possible to bring work into the country, that’s no harm.”

— Chris O'Dowd

31. “I often talk to myself while walking down the street. I did it as a kid.”

— Chris O'Dowd

32. “I’d like to think that I’m getting slightly more mature as time goes on, but I don’t know if my fiancee would necessarily agree.”

— Chris O'Dowd

33. “I play very sweet characters, so people look at me like I’m the kid from ‘The Wonder Years,’ rather than Brad Pitt.”

— Chris O'Dowd

34. “I think I’m going to keep my Irish accent forever now in any movie I make, because chicks dig it and that’s all I care about now!”

— Chris O'Dowd

35. “The fame thing has happened very gradually, so I’ve been kind of lucky.”

— Chris O'Dowd

36. “I’ve always been conscious of the fact that there aren’t enough Irish voices on British television compared to the amount of Irish people who live there.”

— Chris O'Dowd

37. “People in England talk about stupid Hollywood idiots, but the industry attracts some of the cleverest people in the world.”

— Chris O'Dowd

38. “I get asked all the time if I want to do more dramatic acting, and I really doubt that dramatic actors get asked if they want to do more comedies. I don’t really know why that is.”

— Chris O'Dowd

39. “Hey, I think comic actors are the best actors.”

— Chris O'Dowd

40. “When I was about 13 I realised girls weren’t going to kiss me because I was a gigantic, weird looking creature from the depths. I was like 6 ft. aged 11.”

— Chris O'Dowd

41. “The bottom line is that female writers aren’t being given enough opportunities by male producers.”

— Chris O'Dowd

42. “I never thought I’d refer to myself as a hot mess.”

— Chris O'Dowd

43. “Being at the genesis of the creative process is definitely something I want to keep doing. It’s just such a great buzz.”

— Chris O'Dowd

44. “There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful.”

— Chris O'Dowd

45. “I don’t think the public here buy this idea that women and men speak different comedic languages.”

— Chris O'Dowd

46. “Going out with other actors is never good; actresses are neurotic, and actors are horrendous egotists.”

— Chris O'Dowd

47. “I definitely enjoy an audience, when I’m performing. As I get older I’m kind of less comfortable at being demonstrative. I always fancied myself as a raconteur, but that never really worked out.”

— Chris O'Dowd

48. “Nice recall on the famine lesson, buddy,’ I.”

— Chris O'Dowd